Ben Hill County Commission
402-A East Pine Street
Fitzgerald, Georgia 31750
(229) 426-5100

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The Honorable Romelle Green
Chief Magistrate Judge 

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• My Current Term Expires January 2016

The Magistrate Court provides the following services for Ben Hill County:

• Issue and conduct civil claims   

• Issue garnishments

• Writs

• Dispossessory

• Foreclosures

• Issue subpoenas

• Issue post judgment interrogatories

• Enforce county ordinances

• Perform marriages

• Issue search warrants

• Issue civil judgments

• Issue almost all criminal warrants

• Setup pre-warrant application hearings

• Issue bad check warrants (deposit account fraud)

• Hold bond hearings (set the amount of bond)

• Issue conditions orders on family violence warrants

• Execute and accept written waivers of extradition

• Can issue contempt orders

• Issue bench warrants

The monetary limit of the Magistrate Court is $15,000.